When it became obvious that a military action in East Pakistan was inevitable, Admiral Ahsan resigned from his position as Martial Law Administrator in protest, and immediately flew back to Karachi, West Pakistan.

At this point Lloyd George resigned, and on 5 December 1916, no longer enjoying the support of the press or of leading Conservatives, Asquith himself resigned, declining to serve under any other Prime Minister ( Balfour or Bonar Law having been mooted as potential new leaders of the coalition ).

After the Unionists had failed to win an electoral mandate at either of the General Elections of 1910 ( despite softening the Tariff Reform policy with Balfour's promise of a referendum on food taxes ), the Unionist peers split to allow the Parliament Act to pass the House of Lords, in order to prevent a mass-creation of new Liberal peers by the new King, George V. The exhausted Balfour resigned as party leader after the crisis, and was succeeded in late 1911 by Andrew Bonar Law.

Law resigned from this position in November 2011.

Prince Higashikuni resigned in October over a dispute with the American occupation forces over the repeal of the 1925 Peace Preservation Law.

Just like his father, Tom Lee would go on to teach at the J. Reuben Clark Law School for years, before he resigned to accept an appointment as Associate Justice on the Utah Supreme Court.

On 6 July 2003, James Tien Pei Chun the leader of Liberal Party resigned from the Executive Council and forced the government to delay the second reading of the legislation to implement Article 23 of the Basic Law.

Carson immediately announced that he would not stand, and Law eventually announced that he would run for Leader, the day before Balfour resigned on 7 November.

Austen Chamberlain resigned as Party Leader, Lloyd George resigned as Prime Minister and Bonar Law returned on 23 October 1922 in both jobs.

Bonar Law was soon diagnosed with terminal throat cancer and, no longer physically able to speak in Parliament, resigned on 22 May 1923.

Chamberlain resigned the party leadership rather than act against what he believed to be his duty, and was succeeded by Bonar Law, whose views and intentions he had divined the evening before the vote at a private meeting.

When Tennessee was admitted as a state in 1796, the state legislature appointed Willie Blount to the Superior Court of Law and Equity, though he either declined the appointment or resigned before issuing any opinions.

Geoffrey S. Mearns, former dean of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, was named provost, as permanent replacement for Rosa, who resigned in 2010.

In the following years, Lansdowne continued as Opposition Leader in the Lords, his stature increasing when Balfour resigned as party leader and was replaced by the inexperienced Andrew Bonar Law, who had never held cabinet office.

He resigned as Minister for Justice and Law Reform on 19 January 2011.

On 1 September 1995 he resigned as Mayor in order to be able, under Nicaraguan Law, to stand as a candidate in the forthcoming presidential election.

Former President William Howard Taft was a professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School from 1913 until he resigned to become Chief Justice of the United States in 1921.

Army minister Kawashima Yoshiyuki on March 30, and the commander of the Martial Law HQ Kashii Kōhei in July resigned in responsibility of the incident.

Failing to restrict the financing of private schools via the Savary Law, he resigned in 1984.

In 1937, Pound resigned as Dean of Harvard Law School to become a University Professor and soon became a leading critic of the legal realists.

Law resigned immediately from her post of Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

His father was one of the few politicians in the country to give up high office on a point of principle when he resigned as Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs and Deputy Leader of the National Assembly due to differences on political and constitutional matters with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

* 1931 – Bernard Cardinal Law, Archbishop Emeritus of Boston,

During the 1984 presidential race, when Geraldine Ferraro, who was a Roman Catholic, was the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Law and then Archbishop of New York John Joseph O ' Connor both denounced her support of abortion rights for women.

On January 11, 1984, Cardinal Law was appointed Archbishop of Boston, by Pope John Paul II.

Law submitted his resignation as Archbishop of Boston to the Vatican, and Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation on December 13, 2002.

His psychological theory was suggested by the Dissertation concerning the Fundamental Principles of Virtue or Morality, which was written by a clergyman named John Gay ( 1699 — 1745 ), and prefixed by Bishop Law to his translation of Archbishop King's Latin work on the Origin of Evil, its chief object being to show that sympathy and conscience are developments by means of association from the selfish feelings.

* Bernard Francis Law ( born 1931 ), former Archbishop of Boston

: The Archbishop of Canterbury: " Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgments?

However, in 2011, the Archbishop was named Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome, following the resignation from that role of Bernard Francis Cardinal Law, the former Cardinal Archbishop of Boston.

The street was popularly referred to as Primate's Hill, as one of the houses was owned by the Archbishop of Armagh, although this house, along with two others, was demolished to make way for the Law Library of King's Inns.

* James Law, Archbishop of Glasgow ( 1615 – 1632 )

But Lefebvre did send three of his priests and in 1976, the ( now laicised ) Swiss priest Maurice Revaz ( who had taught Canon Law at the Society of Saint Pius X ( SSPX ) seminary of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in Ecône ) persuaded the elderly Vietnamese Roman Catholic Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc of the authenticity of the apparitions.

He retired as the Archbishop of Manila on 15 September 2003, having reached the age of retirement for bishops under Canon Law, and was succeeded by Gaudencio Rosales.

Being a foreigner, Eadulf's status in Ireland is originally that of cu glas ( which translates as " grey dog "), meaning a person without legal standing or honor price ( for a definition of this term, see " Status " in Early Irish Law ); however, his rank as techtaire ( emissary or ambassador ) between Archbishop Theodore and Fidelma's brother King Colgu gave him a high honor price of eight cumals ( a cumal being the value of three cows ) under Irish law ( see Our Lady of Darkness ) and since his marriage to Fidelma ( recognized and approved by her family ) he now has an honor price of half that of Fidelma's but he is not entitled to make legal contracts without her permission ( she is also responsible for any debts that he might incur ) or have any legal responsibility in the raising of Alchu.

Prior to the reform of the Code of Canon Law in 1983, a distinction was made between coadjutor bishops cum jure succesionis and those without – that is, some coadjutors were appointed with the automatic right of succession, and others without such a right ( the latter were usually appointed for archbishops with particularly large dioceses who also held other important posts and to honor certain auxiliary bishops – for instance, Coadjutor Archbishop John Maguire assisted Cardinal Francis Spellman, who was simultaneously Archbishop of New York and also head of what later became the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, two of the largest archdioceses in the country ).

Speakers have included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ted Sorensen, literature critic James Wood, author Claire Messud, Michael Kelly of the Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Law Professors Charles Fried and Lani Guinier, author Samantha Power, Harvard stem cell biologist Doug Melton, philosopher & bio-ethicist Frances Kamm, poet Louise Glück, former ambassadors Peter W. Galbraith and Charles Stith, Mary Beth Cahill, free software pioneer Richard Stallman, and various musical groups.

He made vigorous efforts to stay the growth of Protestantism, but with one or two exceptions persecution was not the policy of Archbishop Hamilton, and in the interests of the Roman Catholic religion a catechism called Hamilton's Catechism ( published with an introduction by TG Law in 1884 ) was drawn up and printed, possibly at his instigation.

During his tenure as Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Law was accused of having mishandled cases of sexual abuse at the hands of diocesan priests.

Three years later Paul VI elevated him to Archbishop of Washington, D. C. ( his successor in Springfield-Cape Girardeau being Bernard Francis Law, another future cardinal ); and in the consistory of 1976 Baum was named Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in via Flaminia.

He remained there until 1988, when he was appointed by the Holy See as an auxiliary bishop of Boston to work under Cardinal Archbishop Bernard Francis Law.

Meanwhile, during the unveiling of the St. Benedict Shrine in the school's jubilee garden, Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the Philippines, lauded the San Beda Law School's tradition of academic excellence and its rich Benedictine and Catholic heritage.